Member Highlights

Shenila Khoja-Moolji received the 2019 Michael Harrington Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for her book and community service work. The book traces the shifting constitution of Muslim girlhood in the context of colonial India and Pakistan. A free electronic version is available here​.

Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu at the University of Washington, published "Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia." This book traces the formation of an Urdu cosmopolis in colonial South Asia.

Julie Flowerday's new journal article, "Kashmir Dispute and 19th Century British-Chinese Stalemate over Hunza—Kanjut" in the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research addresses the notion of modern state and the unresolved pre-partition struggle between Britain and China over a political entity in the Karakoram Mountains. Check it

A. Azfar Moin's article on "The Millennial and Saintly Sovereignty of Emperor Shah Jahan According to a Court Sufi" was recently published in the book, The Empires of the Near East and India (edited by Hani Khafipour).

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Director of Western Indian Ocean Studies at FIU and AIPS Trustee, will be a Fulbright scholar in Pakistan for spring term of 2020. He will teach a course on comparative historiography at UMT in Lahore and continue to do research in Islamabad. His grant is focused on capacity building of Pakistani academics to write for a global audience, apply for international grants, develop US-Pakistani academic relationships, and to develop a more rigorous perspective of Pakistan's history in its humanities disciplines.

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Pakistan Lecture Series

The Pakistan Lecture Series is a program designed to support academic exchange between Pakistani and US scholars and to promote the field of Pakistan Studies as a whole. As a part of this program a Pakistani scholar, artist, musician, etc., is invited to travel to the USA for two to four weeks and present lectures at a minimum of three US institutions that are AIPS members. PLS speakers must be proposed by faculty from AIPS member institutions. Applications are reviewed and awarded based on the committee’s recommendation and are contingent upon available funds.

How to Apply:

The Trustee or Member Institution proposing a PLS speaker makes initial arrangements in terms of the speaker's itinerary and the lectures that they will present. This information should be filled out in the PLS Proposal Form and submitted by email to the AIPS President for review by the Executive Committee/Board of Trustees.

Please allow four weeks for the review process. Once the committee has approved a PLS Speaker, be aware that it can take up to three months to obtain US visa clearance. Please submit your application with sufficient time to accommodate these requirements.

Additionally, please send a proposed budget.

PLS Travel:

AIPS provides each PLS speaker a round trip, economy ticket from Pakistan, which will include US domestic air/rail travel and must be purchased prior to their departure from Pakistan. Once the itinerary has been finalized, please note that it cannot be changed without total cancellation and considerable expense. AIPS will not be responsible for any additional costs resulting from changes in the itinerary. Each PLS speaker is provided a modest honorarium that can be used for incidental expenses that are not covered by host institutions.

Expectations of the Host Institutions:

Each host is expected to provide local hospitality for the PLS speaker, including accommodations, meals and local transportation. Host institutions are expected to complete evaluations of the PLS speaker.

Expectations of the PLS Awardee:

Each awardee is expected to work with the AIPS-member institutions to arrange required lectures. After each lecture, the awardee is to evaluate the host institutions. Evaluation forms can be found below.